Improvement in receivers in heeling-machines



W. F. TROWB-RIDGE.

Receivers inHeeHng-Machines. No.154,160. Patented Au .18,1874.

W fTNESSES:

INVENTOR."

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. TROWBRIDGE, OF HUDSON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN RECEIVERS IN HEELlNG-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154, I60, dated August18, 1874; application filed July 27, 1874.

To all whom. it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. Taow- BRIDGE,of Hudson, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cups forHeeling-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates 'to improvements in receivers for heels inbeefing-machines; and consists in the employment of laterally-adjustableguides in combination with the receiver, for the purpose of adjustingthe heel part of a boot or shoe in the receiver, that it shall belocated in exact position in relation to the heel that has beenpreviously placed in the lower part of the receiver, and. that is to beattached to the shoe in manner as set forth in the description of whatis called the Bigelow heeling-machine. Without such laterally-adjustableguides, in combination with a receiver for the heel to be attached to aboot or shoe, it has been very difficult to locate the shoe in properrelation to the heel in the receiver, and it has frequently occurredthat the heel has been attached a little one-sided to the boot or shoe.This difficulty I overcome by the employment of the aforesaidlaterallyadjustable guides, by which another advantage is alsogained,,namely, that one receiver for heels can be adjusted and used forseveral sizes of boots and shoes merely by the lateral adjustment of theguides, as will hereafter be more fully shown and described.

On the drawings, Figure 1 represents a ground plan of my invention. Fig.2 represents a cross-section on the line A B, and

usual manner.

Fig.3 represents a cross-section on the line C 0, shown in Fig. 1.

Similar letters refer to similar ever they occur on the drawings.

a represents an ordinary receiver for heeliug-machines, provided with arecess, 1), for the heel to be placed therein. 0 represents acylindrical perforation, that serves as a guide for the support of theheel from below, in the On the top of the receiver a. I locatelaterally-adjustable guides at e e, in a suitable manner, as shown inthe drawings. Each of the said laterally-adjustable guides parts wherareprovided with a slot-hole, d e e, and a,

setscrew, d e" e, by which the said guides can be held firmly in placeafter being adjusted. The inner ends of each of the adjustable guides 01e c terminate as faces D E E, against which the heel part of the boot orshoe is held during the attachment of the heel thereto. The ad j ustableguides d c 0 may be kept from turning around the set-screws, confiningthem in place, by the employment of steady-pins or guide-pieces, asusual in similar cases. The face D, as shown, is concave, and the facesE E convex; but this is not important, as they may be made of anyconformity, as may be most suitable, without invalidating my invention.I

\Vhat I wish to secure by Letters Patent, and claim, is-

The combination,with aheeling-machine receiver for heels, of thelaterally-adjustable guides at e e, as and for the purpose herein shownand described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own invention, I haveaflixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM F. TROWBRIDGE.

Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDREN, J OHN R. HEARD.

